Risk factors for failure of 5-fluorouracil needling revision for failed conjunctival filtration blebs

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 875-880

  Shin, Dong H ^a   Kim, Yong Y ^a   Ginde, Savita Y ^a   Kim, Paul H ^b   Eliassi Rad, Babak ^a   Khatana, Anup K ^c   Keole, Nandita S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TONOMETRY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0035209569     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(01)01232-6     Document Type: Article

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